When Aldous Huxley published his essay "The Doors of Perception" in 1954, he did much to publicize a very strange drug. "Mescaline," he writes, "admits one to an other-world of light, color ...

Aldous Huxley isn't as famous as George Orwell ... in the fact that Jim Morrison's band took their name from The Doors Of Perception, Huxley's book about his experiences with the drug mescaline.